Recent content by Gardukk

So instead of relying too heavily on the DM to accommodate for its shortcomings as an adventure, it relies too heavily on the players to accommodate for its shortcomings as an adventure. I can't say I'm seeing the difference here. My problem isn't so much that Caves of Chaos lacks a story, but...

Dude, that's still a thing. Personally, I can't stand this module. I understand that the premise is to have the DM figure out the story bits for himself, but that kind of defeats the purpose of a pre-written module in the first place. I'd much rather spend my creative energy writing my own...

I can't imagine there would be an NDA on something that will supposedly be publicly available.

I once read online about a trick someone used in a similar vein as this. (It may have been on ENworld, I can't remember) As the party reaches their destination, (Typically a dungeon of some sort) they see that the most immediate path they can take seems to be a narrow stone bridge, at the end...

The group I DM for has one player who is always on his phone, but is quick to act in combat and pays attention to and participates in roleplaying scenes. I also have another player who doesn't even have a phone and still manages to zone out all the time and needs scenes re-capped for him. I...

My biggest beef with the 3.x spell format is that they have this nice, easy-to-read stat block above the text that details of the spell's important information except what the spell actually does. If they have a spell block that has the quick information that you use 90% of the time, followed...

I'd love to see something along the lines of a "difficulty slider" for certain effects like SoD or Level drain. Something that could let DMs decide how an ability works on a case by case basis. Here's a mockup, to show what I mean: This fits into the whole "modular" approach that Wizards...

If there are no other lives in danger than his own, what is the point of challenging the captor one-on-one instead of just booking it? A paladin with an axe between his eyes isn't going to do a very good job of protecting the innocent. If the opportunity arises that would allow the paladin to...

I'm fairly certain that Obsidian Entertainment (New Vegas, KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2) is making or planning on making a third Icewind Dale. I do know that Josh Sawyer, one of the lead designers for the first two, is currently working at Obsidian. In addition, the guys who did Star Trek...

To be fair, a sword is a great deal harder to learn to use than a knife. Couple that with pure luck and the fact that most swords today are just for display and not actually meant to be used for swinging at people and you've got quite a different situation. Still, that's pretty messed up. I...

I started playing Fourth Edition right around the time it came out and have been playing it weekly (With a few hiccups) ever since. When it first came out I was ecstatic, and loved just about everything it had to offer. It's three years later and I'm not so sure it's really as perfect as I...

Just out of curiosity, what sources are you drawing your monsters from? Content from the Monster Manual 1 (And to a lesser extent, 2) and other materials released around the same time is rather sub-par. Most of the monsters have heaps of hit points, have really high defenses, don't do a whole...

I don't believe it's something that's currently being worked on, but I've always felt like Mass Effect has a universe that would lend itself really well to a P&P RPG. Lots of vibrant and diverse lore. I wouldn't be surprised if we something eventually.

I've always preferred to treat errata as suggestions rather than rules changes. In my games I go by the books, but if something seems like it needs fixing I check the errata to see if it has been. Nine times out of ten it has been and I adopt the change as part of the house-rules at the table...

Yeah, the WotC community in general is really quite childish. The thread you linked, along with the other thread announcing SvD's retirement from 4e content, is ultimately what motivated me to ditch the place and check out EnWorld instead. I think I upgraded. On one hand, I kind of hope that...